I guess one of the things that I miss in G+ (or maybe I just haven’t found it) are short URLs to your profile. Facebook has it, so you can get to my profile by entering facebook.com/rihards into your browser. Short and simple. So I wanted something like that for the other sites that I use (G+, Twitter, Flickr, etc.), but I wanted them to be consistent.
And what better way to do that than to use your own domain, and just set up some redirects? A little research into the difference between HTTP 301 and 307, this was born:
Redirect 307 /plus https://plus.google.com/u/0/114104365088835046723/posts
Redirect 307 /twitter https://twitter.com/#!/rihards
Redirect 307 /facebook https://www.facebook.com/rihards
Redirect 307 /flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/rihardss/
Just added that to my .htaccess file and it works like a charm!
If I want to have a look at my G+ profile I can just go to rihards.com/+ and it will take me there.
Now I (or anyone else for that matter) don’t have to remember the exact URL for any of my profiles (and I don’t have to log in to check). As long as I remember what the site is called I can tell people where to find me online.
And of course, I can add/remove/edit these as I please.
